Nestlé Kenya, through its leading MILO brand yesterday announced its sponsorship for this year’s Kenya Primary School Ball Games to the tune of KShs. 5 Million from 3.5 Milion.
The money will be used to purchase playing kits, medals and certificates for the National primary school ball games which will be held in Machakos teachers Training college from 13th to 15th April.
In addition to the Shs. 5million sponsorship, Nestlé Kenya will give a cup of MILO to the over 1200 pupils and 200 officials in Machakos every day of the competitions.
In 2014, around 20 primary boys were sponsored to Milo soccer championship in Nigeria and 18 in 2010 and 2011 sent to South Africa and Ghana respectively.
This year’s national ball games will bring together a total of over 1200 pupils and 200 officials from across the 47 counties.
The games which earlier kicked off at the district level will now be staged regionally. Nairobi will participate as the Metropolitan region, Nyanza as Lake region, Rift Valley as Nakuru region, Coast as Mombasa region, Central as Aberdares region, Western as Nzoia region, North Eastern as Garissa region and the old Eastern Province as Northern region.
This is the seventh year in a row that MILO is sponsoring the National Finals of the Kenya Primary School Ball Games and Gymnastics.
In the last seven years, over 15,000 pupils have been impacted by the sponsorship making it one of the biggest public-private partnership in the country –geared on nurturing young talents in sports.
AUTHOR: SANDRA OBIRI.